Get able to journey again in time to the Forman basement, as a result of the official teaser trailer for Netflix’s That ’90s Show is lastly right here! Set roughly 15 years after the occasions of That ’70s Show, the sitcom is stacked with each new and acquainted faces.
The sequence revolves round Eric and Donna’s teenage daughter, Leia Forman (performed by Callie Haverda), as she spends the summer season at her grandparents’ home in Point Place, Wisconsin. While there, she meets their next-door neighbor Gwen (Ashley Aufderheide) and turns into a part of a tight-knit buddy group. Each season will happen throughout summer season.
The present will deal with the brand new group of youngsters, however a number of OG characters from That ’70s Show will make visitor appearances, together with Eric (Topher Grace), Donna (Laura Prepon), Fez (Wilmer Valderrama), Kelso (Ashton Kutcher), and Jackie (Mila Kunis).
In addition to Eric and Donna, one different authentic couple shall be collectively: Kelso and Jackie (whose actors are married in actual life!). “My husband and I are together in it, which is weird because we shouldn’t have been,” Mila Kunis stated in an interview with Access Hollywood. “I called BS. I was like, ‘My character would be with Fez…’ Now [Kelso and I] are married with a kid, and I was like, ‘I don’t know about this.'”
That ’90s Show is stuffed with connections to the unique present behind the scenes as effectively. The creators of That ’70s Show, Bonnie and Terry Turner, co-created That ’90s Show together with their daughter, Lindsay, and Gregg Mettler (who wrote for That ’70s Show). Additionally, Kurtwood Smith (who performs Red) and Debra Jo Rupp (who performs Kitty) are government producers. Laura Prepon additionally directed a number of episodes.
Originally, That ’90s Show was pitched with a really completely different premise. Terry Turner revealed in an interview with Variety: “Our first pass what that Eric had at some point gone to a rock festival and hooked up with someone, leading to an unknown grandchild. And at the doorway shows up a 14- or 15-year-old kid who says he’s Red and Kitty’s grandkid.”
Ultimately, Netflix determined that wasn’t fairly proper, so everybody went again to the drafting board. And thus, the concept of Leia Forman was born.
“I wanted [it] to have the same feeling as That ’70s Show did,” Mettler advised Variety. “The show had a very special tone. It was playful, it had a heart, it was sarcastic, it was filled with love within this family, within the friend group. I missed being in the basement with those kids.”